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A NAVAL BALLAD BY CASSIUS M. (BLAY,
“'III'I‘EHALL, KY.

A we! sheet. and a flowing sea.
A wind that follows fast,

And [ills the white and swelling sriil.
And bends the gallant. mnsl.

And bends the gallant must. my boys,
Whilst like an eagle free,

Away the good ship flies and

Leaves Golumliin on the lezr

Columbia needs no hulvnrks,
No towers along the steep:
Her march is o’er the mountain wave,
Her home is on the deep.
is en the deep, my boys.
And merry men are We;
The hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.
September 5, 1900.

 

 NATIONAL

Woman’s Christian Temperance" Union

Department of Soldiers and Sailors

FRANCIS E. WILLARD
New Directions for Comfort Bags, 1907

Contents of Bag.

\ - - F'f ‘ v '-
’1 WO Sizes of blztek nud white buttons. “1‘ ueerlles 30' 0

1 SPOOI 0f patent thread Six coarse daruiug needles.
1 spool of white. thread, N0. 2|.
2 inches - h i h ‘ Six safety pins.
No. 2—1. fo.r ‘ 1 " ‘ ' " ' '
[1.111 ' . . , . V . , plLCL 11.1110“ tape.

1 spool black thread,

1 313001 Whlte (lni‘ulug 1 pin bull lillerl with pins.
cotton.

1 spool black (larning 1 small roll Of absorbing

cotton. cotton

1 pair small blunt seis- 1 small roll of clean muslin
5013' for bandage ‘2 inches wide

‘J v x

1 package court plaster. " 3‘1”] length.

lTestnment. These may be bought at the

1 White Ribbon Soug—
ster.

drug,r store (pharmacy).

Pledge Card

1 ' ' w H ,
. 1nclies Wide \\ hen fimshcd.
Leaflets on pur1ty, to- 7A

9 INCHES LONG WHEN FINISHED

bacvo and tem- .. A good motherly letter.
Pemnce . Boys, 100k for this first.
‘ (OVER)

 

 Take strong pretty eretonne 11 inches long (36 inches in length will make 6 bags) and!

yard wide, cut a strip 2%; inches wide from the width (1 yard) for pin balls and button bags,

leavingmfié inches in width. Cut this in two pieces for two bags. On wrong side of clothq
inches from top edge fasten three pieces of new flannel, red, white and blue, with pinked edges
for safety pins and needles. This should haVe a piece of narrow white ribbon sewed on (one
underneath and the other on top) to tie up in a roll so that the needles will not rust. Fasten
a small bag [or buttons on the other side where the casing will be made. Sew up side and
bottom. Turn down 2inches at top for frill; stitching two I'OWS (oneinch apart) for casing
for two strings of pretty colored braid each 21 inches long and run in either side for opening
and closing bag. The pin ball should be2inches in diameter (or wide); when finished fill
with pins.

Make Wall Pockets like a large envelope but of white table oil cloth. Fill with clippings
cut from good reading matter, Sewaring on each corner and run ribbons through to hangit
up. Mark it from W. C. T, U. These are used in hospitals, etc,

Testaments, 6 cents, songsters, 5 cents, scissors, 20 cents, with postage added; pledge
cards 40 cents per 100, with flag, Miss \Villard’s face. and stub for return, also leaflets can be
purchased from me. MRS. ELLA HOOVER Tl’lACl’lER, Superintendent,

Florence, Burlington Co., N. J.

N. B.—All Unions and L. T. L.’s competing for banner MUST PUT in all the articles
mentioned above, The l/V/titc Ribbon songs/er for this department being used. (Compiled
for this department.)

The button bag must have a plain piece left on at the top for fastening in casing. After

buttons are in pin the bag together with safety pin.

gov lil’t)

 

 1904—$150,-000

The next United Offering, made on October 6th,
1904, in Trinity Church, Boston, reverted to the object
of 1898. From eighty—six Dioceses and Missionary Dis—
tricts, from our Foreign Churches, from Mexico and
Brazil, from the Isle of Pines, from our oldest Foreign
Mission (Greece), came the contributions which united
to make our Offering $147,388.65. To this one member
added $2,611.35, to complete the sum of $150,000.

1907—$224,251.55

It was on Thursday, the third day of October, 1907,
that the Auxiliary made its latest United Offering. Holy
Trinity Church in Richmond, Va., was filled with the
women who brought it. They represented the women of
the Church, in our own land and in far distant lands, who
had been for three years, with prayer and love and earnest
endeavor, uniting to make this gift. And how rejoiced
all were, when they found that in the years from 1904 to
1907 they had been able to gain $74,000 over their last
United Offering. Ten thousand dollars of this will be
sent to Tokyo District, for a Mission building at Sendai.
The remainder of the money will be used, as were the
Offerings of 1898 and 1904, for our women Missionaries.

In 1904-05 there was expended for this purpose
about $34,000; in 1905-06, about $44,000; in 1906-07.
about $60,000. It will take $180,000 to care for
woman’s work in these next three years, if no gain is
made over the three years past. But when we think
how our women will be uniting in earnest prayer
for new workers, and how our children who have been
trained in the love of Missions are growing to be the
young women who themselves can be Missionaries, think
how great our next United Offering should be!

Leaflet U. 0. No. 4: WOmau’s Armiliary, Church.

Jfissious H ouse, 28I Fourth Avenue, N ew York.

$511111 the lflnitph (IBfi‘Pring 15615 (lirnnm

'91 TVERY third year, on the first Wednesday in
‘ October, General Convention meets. The Bish—
ops and chosen clergymen and laymen from

together to legislate for the Church’s welfare.

At the same time the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board
of Missions has its triennial gathering, and representa—
tives from every branch throughout the Church at home
and abroad are called together for a Service of Thanks—
giving and for a meeting in which they can learn of the
progress of Christ’s Kingdom.

1886—$82.71

Such a United Service of Thanksgiving was held in
Chicago in 1886, when Grace Church was filled, and the
Bishop of the Diocese said that he never before had ad-
ministered the Holy Communion to so large a congrega-
tion of women. But when the offering which all those
women had brought to their Thanksgiving Service was
counted, it was found to amount to $82.71 ! Certainly no
one then had thought of a United Offering to express
something of What a United Service really means to the
members of the Auxiliary. ‘

1889—$2,188.64

But in 1889 the change began, when one member of
a parish branch in the Diocese of Pittsburgh asked that
the women might not come again so empty-handed, and
it was suggested that $2,000 be given at the Service, in
the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, on

 

 October 3d. It was also proposed that this sum be
divided, and used, one—half to build the first church in
our Alaska Mission, the other to send a new Missionary
to Japan.

There are many active in the Auxiliary to-day, who
remember the disappointment that was felt when the
Secretary announced at the morning session which suc—
ceeded this Service that the Offering, instead of the de-
sired $2,000, was $400 only. But, as the meeting ad-
journed for luncheon, additional gifts were asked for, and
these brought the Offering to $700. And when the after-
noon session began with the announcement of the good
news that one member present would give the $1,000 for
the Church in Alaska, hope and earnestness revived, and
before the day was over, the first United Offering was
complete. In 1890 Miss Lovell, the Auxiliary’s first
United Offering Missionary, went from St. Thomas’s
Parish, New York, to Japan, where she still works under
the Bishop of Tokyo; while in Christ Church, Anvik, on
the Yukon, stands to-day a house of prayer for our Mis-
sionaries and their people, provided by this Offering.

1892—$20,353.16

When the Auxiliary met in St. Paul’s Church, Baiti-
more, in I892, the $2,000 of three years before had grown
to be the $20,000 of the morning’s Offering. No further
proof was needed to show that the idea of a'United Gift
at the time of their United Service was growing dear to
the hearts of the members of the Auxiliary.

The offering of 1892, by vote of the Auxiliary, was
added to a fund in the trust of the Missionary Society,
which was known as the Enrolment Fund. This fund
was started, in 1883, by an enthusiastic layman, in the
hope that one million of dollars for Missions might be
gathered and offered at one Service by the entire Church.

The idea had never been fulfilled, and such sums as had
been given were lying at interest, and the offering of
1892 was added to these. ‘

1895—$56,198.35

But on October 4th, 1895, in Christ Church, St. Paul,
the Auxiliary gave $56,000 for the endowment of the
Episcopate in a Missionary District, and later, upon mak-
ing request to the Board of Missions, the $20,000 for the
Enrolment Fund and this offering were put together, in
order that the interest upon them both might give the
full amount needed for a Bishop’s salary. And year by
year the Auxiliary rejoices that its gifts of 1802 and 1895
provide the salary of the Missionary Bishop of Alaska.

1898—$82," 1 42.87

Three years more passed, during which time the
Auxiliary was gathering its triennial gift, now for the
training and support of women workers.

Again the Triennial Service was held—this time in
Trinity Church, Washington, and again the United Offer-
ing was made, and from the $56,000 of three years before
it had grown to $82,000. With this sum fifty women
were sent out and kept in the Mission Field at home and
abroad, and for five years it enabled the Board to en-
large and continue the work of women for women.

1901—$107,027.83

The United Offering of 1901, made in Grace Church,
San Francisco, was a present from the Woman’s
Auxiliary to our Missionary Bishops. Divided into
equal parts, with one part devoted to the Colored work,
it went East and West, North and South, to meet
urgent needs of varied kinds, and there exist in many
Mission fields to- -day mementoes, which any visiting
member of the Auxiliary may view \\ 1th pleasure, of the
first United Offering of the new century.

 

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SODII‘IOIR Léiemmre

----EDITOR$ IN CHIEF-"-

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
EDITOR UNCLE REMUB'B MAGAZINE

EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

CHARLES WILLIAM KENT, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
LITERARY EDITOR

CHARLES ALPHONSO SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHTCAROLINA
ASSOCIATE LTERARY EDTOR

MORGAN CALLAWAY. JR.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

FRANKLIN L. RILEY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

GEORGE A. WAUCHOPE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

ASSISTANT LITERARY EDITORS

CONSULTING EDITORS

JOHN W. ABERCROMBIE
PnESIDENT or UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

BROWN AYRES
PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

DAVID C. BARROW
OHANOELLOR OF UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

THOMAS D. BOYD
PRESIDENT LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

E. B. CRAIGHEAD
PRESIDENT or TULANE UNIVERSITY

BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

DAVID F. HOUSTON
PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY or TEXAS

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PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY or MISSOURI

A. A. KINOANNON
CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF MISS

J. H. KIRKLAND
OHANDELLOR 0F VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

F, V. N. PAINTER
ROANOKE COLLEGE

HENRY N. SNYDER
PRESIDENT OF woFFoRD COLLEGE

JOHN N. TILLMAN
PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

FRANCIS P. VENABLE

ADVISORY COUNCIL

CHARLES E. AYCOCK
EX—GOVERNOR, NORTH CAROLINA

EDWARD W. CARMACK
Ex-u. s. SENATOR. TENNESSEE

CHARLES A. CULBERSON
u. s. SENATOR. TEXAS

THOMAS F'. GAILOR
P. E. BISHOP. TENNESSEE

CHARLES B. GALLOWAY
BISHOP M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. MISS.

RICHMOND P. HOBSON
CONGRESSMAN. ALABAMA

BENJAMIN J. KEILEY
R. c. BISHOP. GEORGIA

STEPHEN D. LEE
GENERAL COMMANDINO U. c. V.I MISS.

w. W. MOORE
PRESIDENT UNION THEOL. SEM. VA.

EDGAR Y. MULLINS
PRESIDENT so. DAPT. THEOL. SEM., KY.

ISIDOR RAYNER

u. s. SENATOR, MARYLAND
U. M. ROSE

LAWYER. ARKANSAS

HOKE SMITH

PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR. GEORGIA

F. F’. GAMBLE
SECRETARY AND BUSINESS MANAGER

 

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Elfin fieriw in Elimtly.

The Jamestown Exposition in putting a peculiar emphasis
on our national beginnings and our revivified nationalism
has attracted attention to the South’s homogeneous progress
through three hundred years of romantic vicissitudes and
courageous purpose. The date 1607 marked our beginning,
the year 1907 is the end of an epoch. With this epoch-mark-
ing date, an epoch-making series of books has been planned,
for this Library in summing up the South’s significant share in
the Nation’s intellectual growth, gives promise, too, of an era
of literary achievement greater than we have yet experienced.
To know the value of the South’s progress as a constituent
element of our present stability, the careful reader should be
acquainted not merely with its history, the record of its
deeds, but with its literature, the subtler record of its head
and heart.

Gillie ifiurpnae.

The reason of this Library, the very necessity of its
existence, is not to be found in any spirit of unholy rivalry with
any other section or any vainglorious desire to proclaim its
own greatness, but in the frank and patriotic desire to lay more
deeply the foundations of our greatness, by establishing that
not New England alone or the Middle States, but the South as
well, has enjoyed the gift of utterance. We would not have
Southern boys and girls know less of New England authors,
but New England boys and girls, yes, American boys and girls
and men and women know more of Southern Literature.
This Library seeks no popularity at the expense of any favored
territory or any fixed reputations. It would not lessen, but
enlarge. It aims to meet a demand—a real and a growing de-

 

 mand—that comes from the delving scholar baffled in his re-
searches, from High Schools multiplying rapidly throughout
the South and expanding daily in Library equipment, from
Colleges oifering courses in American literature, from libraries
desirous of representing adequately our national literary effort,
from the general reader of piqued curiosity, from men and
women proud of our progress and our promise.

A swim but not Svertinnaliam.

The Library, then, is not designed to prove the absolute or
relative greatness of the South, nor to resurrect authors buried
in deserved oblivion, but to do full honor to men of merit
Whose merits, however, have not been duly recognized, and to
secure for ourselves and preserve for others, the best that has
been thought and written in artistic form by our Southern
writers. The South’s renown for oratory seems to be wide-
spread, the recognition of its authors has been tardy and
stinted. The call has come from many quarters, from work-
ers of every grade, and men and women of all vocations, that
such a Library should be compiled.

A Nntahle firm.

Editors and publishers are heartily agreed that this shall be
a notable series of volumes, not making its appeal to local
pride or personal prejudice, but, with catholic mood and judg-
ment, representing the best that the South has produced. It
is a difficult task to select from three thousand names, readily
collated, three hundred that must be included. Yet it is the
conscientious purpose of the editors to choose for individual
treatment such authors only as clearly justify their own in-
clusion. I

Ehitnrial iprnmaihilitg.

Herein lies the solemn responsibility of editors and contrib-
utors, to see to it that nothing but their combined wisdom
shall decide what authors of a right must be included, and
within what necessary limits they must be treated.

 

 Elly: Swan.

The staff of editors and contributors so far engaged is a
guarantee of the thoroughness and the essential honesty of this
work. This staff will be greatly enlarged so as to include
other representatives of our Higher Institutions of Learning
as well as men of ofiicial prominence. To these will be added
editors, authors, distinguished citizens and others fitted to
lend valuable aid.

35in $uuth2rn Elam.

These books, then, will be edited by Southern men and
women, actively engaged in authorship or capable of present-
ing in attractive form the lives and lessons of our well-known
authors. It will be Southern, because these editors in making
selections from the authors will select, as far as possible, such
specimens as best reflect the Southern life.

A grhnlarlg 132mm».

But this is not to be a mere compilation, a sort of machine-
made anthology of stereotyped scraps. It is to be character-
ized by scholarly acumen and accuracy, and reveal on every
page throbbing personality. Each biographical sketch will be
prepared with special care and first-hand knowledge; each crit-
ical estimate will be made in the ‘moist light’ of human inter—
est and fraternal good will; and to each sketch will be ap-
pended a bibliography so that the critical reader may verify
the facts and revise the judgments.

Eflnrm.

In fuller detail, then, the Library of Southern Literature
will be made up as follows: It will consist of fifteen hand-
some octavo volumes of about five hundred pages each, printed
from selected clear open face type on superior laid paper,
manufactued specially for this publication. It is an opaque,
deckle-edge paper, beautifully finished and water marked, each
page bearing the name Library of Southern Literature. The
illustrations will prove a unique and valuable feature of these

 

 volumes. It will contain fine photogravures of persons and
places, mentioned in the text and, as far as possible, these
portraits and illustrations will be such as have never been in
print. The whole series will be a work of art.

A gyneriat Ehiiinn.

This is especially true of the first thousand sets, a special
De Luxe and autograph edition. This edition will be in two
bindings, full leather and the finest imported French Calf, a,
novelty in beautiful’and durable binding. The designs and
workmanship will be the best that the book—binding art can
produce. All of the designs, tops of volumes, and lettering
will be in pure gold. On the sides of the volumes will be im-
pressed medallions, representing the seals of the Southern
States, surrounded by a gold wreath of magnolia leaves and
blossoms, while the backs of the volumes will have the full
magnolia tree stamped in gold. At the top the LIBRARY OF
SOUTHERN LITERATURE will appear to blossom from this
magnolia, the evergreen peculiar to the Southern States.

Gardenia.

But the value of this series as a monument to the South
will consist in its contents. The first thirteen volumes will
treat individual authors. There will be about twenty authors
discussed in each volume and each author will average about
twenty pages. These twenty pages will be given to the bio-
graphical and critical sketch and the selections. The selec-
tions will be complete in themselves for poets, orators, essay-
ists, and short-stOry writers, While the novelists, historians
and dramatists will be represented by selections adequately
suggestive and characteristic.

These thirteen volumes will furthermore contain a general
introduction, a short historical sketch of Southern Literature,
a complete Bibliography of Southern literature, an essay on
French literature in the South, and another 011 Folk-Lore.

 

 61112 Zflnurtemflr lfinlumv.

The Fourteenth volume will be of indispensable value and
of fascinating interest. It will not be devoted to individual
authors, but to anonymous and fugitive poems, to single poems
of merit from authors not generally renowned, to editorials of
historic import, to notable epitaphs and inscriptions, to sig-
nificant letters, to excerpts from old magazines, to legends and
traditions, to historical data, to famous sayings and apt quota-
tions, to myths and folk-lore tales, to anecdotes and rare mis-
ceIIanea, to material illustrative of Southern life and char-
acter.

finlunw ifiiftrm.

This volume will contain a biographical dictionary or ga-
zetteer consisting of short sketches of about twenty-five hun-
dred Southern writers. The list will include the names of
the three hundred writers treated in volumes one to thirteen
and the names of more than two thousand other writers who
have contributed to Southern literature.

Volume fifteen will contain also a series of carefully pre-
pared and minutely classified indexes. These will enable
even the hasty reader to see at a glance in what propor-
tion the different types of literature—such as lyric poems,
epic poems, dramas, essays, orations, etc.,—-—have been repre-
sented by Southern writers. It will enable him also to turn
at once to any of the three hundred authors and orators repre-
sented by selections, to the name of any of the two hundred
contributors, and to any article or topic included in the pre-
ceding fourteen volumes.

Editors and publishers are alike resolved that this volume
shall be a triumph both in comprehensiveness of content and
in facility of reference.

 

   PRESS COMMENT

It remained to Miss Kearney to capture the meeting
by storm.—The Christian Commonwealth, London. Eng-
land.

Miss Belle Kearney gave the master-stroke of the
evening—The Echo, London, England.

Miss Belle Kearney followed with an address full of

eloquence. She is a powerful speaker.—Globc Democrat,
St. Louis, Mo.

Miss Belle Kearney was introduced. . Her

adress was the most remarkable one of the evening.

A masterpiece of oratory backed up by an end-

less array of facts most forcibly expressed ——The Wash-
ington Post, Washington D. C.

Miss Belle Kearney, the well known authoress and
famous lecturer, delivered a strong and interesting ad-
dress before the legislature, which was listened to by
the lawmakerséwthe most «intensemannerand received
the hearticst applause. Miss Kearney has a magnificent
delivery and a splendid voice and it was easy for one
sitting in the remotest part of the hall to clearly hear
every word that fell from the speaker’ s lips. ——The Jack-
son Evening News, Jackson, Miss.

Miss Belle Kearney, the well-known lecturer. ad-
dressed a joint session of the state legislature in the
hall of the house of representatives. The seats were
all occupied. Miss Kearney possesses a strong person.-
ality and undoubted talent as a public speaker. Her
well modulated, persuasive voice easily filled the cham-
ber, and her utterances were characterized by strength
of argument, sentiment and great earnestness. Her
talk contained no dull periods and was listened to with
close attention bv the solens; she delivered an eloquent
peroration. '

Miss‘ Kearney addressed .the Georgia legislature by
official request of that body—The Atlanta Constitution,
Atlanta, Ga.

In its representative, the Sunny South was well
favored last night; and, without saying anything in
disparagement of the other brilliant speakers of the
evening, it is not unfair to state that none of them
aroused more enthusiasm, none of them was more elo-
quent than was this lady from Mississippi. Tall, grace-
ful and handsome, with a fine, musical voice and the
soft intonation of the South, which the most cultured
seem unable to drop. she took the big audience by
storm

She continued her address, and had aroused the a11-

-Bdienee to a highpitch of enthusiasm when- her—t" tee

expired. The convention applauded her uproariously
and wanted her to continue, but she only bowed her
thanks—Portland Daily Press, Portland, Me.

'l‘wo notable temperance lectures were delivered in this
city yesterday by Miss Belle Kearney of Mississippi.
Crowds taxed the capacities of the auditoriurns in which
she spoke. Miss Kearney is a typical Southerner, and her
accent and mannerisms were not the least of her pleasing
address. She has a deep, musical voice and a delivery al-
most dramatic. ller diction is picturesque and her liberal
and apt quotations from the classics and moderns 011 sub—
jects, social and Christian, indicate a wide range of reading.
\Vit, humor and pathos, varied with logic, held her audience

spellbound to the end—The Daily Tribune, Salt Lake City,
Utah.

Miss” Kearney's presence is impressive, carrying the
impression before the fact is known that she is of
Southern stock. Her piercing, dark eye, expressive yet
firm face, and a natural ease on the platform capti-
vate her audience, while the force of her argument
and eloquent words well support her appearance—The
Morning Oregonian, Portland, Oregon.

Miss Kearney has a fine, full voice with a rich South-
ern mellowness, and her flow of language is marvelous.
Her choice of words, her similes and constructive abil-
ity, both in thought and delivery, are exceedingly fine.
Miss Kearney comes from an old, Southern family and
she is a beautiful woman—Houston Daily Post, Hous—
ton, Texas.

The principal address of the evening was developed

by Miss Belle —Kearney, of Mis‘siSsippi, Who is a fluent, "

forceful and witty speaker, and roused the audience to
enthusiasm.—New York Daily Tribune, Brooklyn.

Miss Kearney has been received by Saratoga audi-
ences as no woman in the lecture field has ever been.
—The Daily Saratogian, Saratoga. N. Y.

Miss Belle Kearney is one of the brilliant and “com-
ing” women. A Mississippian by birth, she possesses
all the grace and charm of manner so long accorded
the women of the South. She is a gifted orator, speak-
ing with fervid eloquence which carries conviction by
its earnestness quite as much a_s its logic—Inter-
Ocean Chicago 111.; - “r

The church was crowded to the doors last evening by
people who gathered to hear the address of Miss Kear-
ney. A large number cheerfully stood during the lee-

ture. Miss Kearney is a woman of brilliant talent. She“

has a voice which penetrates to every portion of the
auditorium where She speaks, and it is of a depth and
sweetness which makes it never tiresome—The Daily
News, Denver, Colorado.

Miss Belle Kearney, of Mississippi, a lady with a most
charming accent, the soft Southern sound, was a great
favorite with the audience. She told a number of an-
ecdotes with a rich humor that was captivating. She
carried her audience away with her in a powerful ap
peat—The St. Paul Globe, St. Paul, Minn.

Last evening Miss Belle Kearney spoke in the Assem-

bly chamber. Miss Kearney is a speaker of rare ability,
reciting fact and incident in a most charming style.

~ Her talk was impressiv a as well as entertarnrng —VVis

cousin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin.

At both services the churches were crowded to the
doors. and at the night service the vestibule was filled
with people who could not even get standing room in-
side. Miss Kearney is a typical Southern woman in
manner and in accent. Her diction is clear, her voice
good. and she was heard in every part of the church,
and with wonderful magnetism she holds the closest
attention of her audience. She is clear in thought,
forcible in expression, apt and classical in illustration,
graceful in gesture, and has a charming voice. She
shows broad culture and devotion to her life work.—
Commercial Appeal, Memphis. Tenn.

 

 

Miss Kearney’s Lectures

are under the direction of

TH E RICE BUREAU

DE LONti RICE, General Manager

Nashville, Ten nesee

LECTURER

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 MISS BELLE KEARNEY

who has an international reputation as a lecturer and writer, is a member of a conservative, Southern family.
Her ancestm‘s were of the nobility of Scotland and Ireland. Those who journeyed to America. III the seven—
teenth century became planters, holding large estates and hundreds of slaves. By inheritance. Miss ly larney
is of the old regime, but she is distinctly representative of the New South, and, being intensely national lll
spirit, she stands as an exponent of the most progressive womanhood of the great commonwealth ot the

liited States.
I Miss KEARNEY AS A LECTURER

Since Miss K ‘arney entered the lecture lield, she has risen to be one of the most logical, brilliant and
popular 0 'ators in the natiovn. She has spoken in the largest auditoriums of two continents, and has addressed
assemblies of anions natures: Women’s Clubs, Church Conferences, State Legislatures, many leading
Chautauquas, national conventions of the Woman Suffrage Association, national and international conventions
of the Woman’s Christian 'I‘cmperance Union, the Society of Christian Endeavor, and, while in Washington
City, in 1900, the Committee on Military Affairs of the United States Senate.

MISS KEARNEY AS A TRAVELER

Miss Kearney’s public life has made her an extensive traveler; carrying her into every state and
territory of the Republic of America, through Canada, and, on different occasions, toEurope. She. has
recently made a magnificent tour around the world; lecturing. studying so'Ciological conditions, and contribut-
inO‘ articles to a syndicate of newspapers. While in Germany, she took a course in political economy, spoke

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before the International Congress of \\ omen, during its immense sesSions in Berlin, and was the iecipient of
hospitality from many prominent personages; among whom was Prince Von liulow, the successor of Bismarck.
()n Miss Kearney‘s visit to Russia, an interVicw i'as granted w1tli the Grand I,)uchess Serge, Sister of the
Empress, and a cordial reception was given her by Count Leo 'I‘olstoi, on his estate at \asnaya Polyana. In
Holland, the distinction was bestowed upon Miss Kearney of being admitted to the historic andience-chamber
to witness the Opening of Parliament by Queen Wilhelmina, a favor only once before secured by the American
Ambassador for any one not directly connected With the diplomatic life of the Court. At the Hague, she was
welcomed in the home of Dr. A. Kuvper, who was then Prime Minister of the Netherlands, and was enter-
tained by three (‘ountesses, granddaugbters of IIolland’s most famous patriot, Count van I’logendorp. In
Belgium, she was one of the few invited guests, on an especial occasion in Antwerp, in honor of the presence
of King Leopold. While in (lreece, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, China and Japan, Miss Ixcarney lectured before
schools, colleges and congregations of the people; two notable occasions being the Conference of the National
Edu-ational Assrwiation, at Shanghai, and a National Convention of Japanese women at. Yokohama. In
Miss Kearney's travels, she has been :u‘lmitted to every class of SOCiety; from that of the nobility of luurope,
and Consular and Ministerial realms in all countries, down to the family of a Turkish Ettendi in the Lebanon
Mountains and the mud-hut existence of groups of Bedouin Arabs upon the deserts of Africa.

 

I LECTURES

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“Russm as I Saw lt ‘ Woman in the Orient
This covers Miss Kearney‘s visit to Count TOIStOI. 'r1 This lecture portrays the condition of women in

discussion 0f the conditions existing in the Ellipil'e Of Egypt, India, China and Japan: and depicts sociological
the Czar. and descriptions ot the peonle ol' (litterent situations generally in those countries.

ranks and their manner of living. . .
“Old Da sin DiXie Land”
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ng‘htS 0n Japa This popular lecture is given from the standpoint of

A lecture narrating Miss Kearney‘s experiences in . ' _ . ,. and
t1 'er ’(I'I life of the inhabitants of the Sunrise Coun— a slaxeholdei 5 daughter . It IS hist011(, humorous ‘
tie efl {‘1 2318,01,“ and costumes their national charac pathetic. one of the prominent features being incidents
1'Y; 163 ‘ ‘ . 3 c , ' " .’ . ' from the neO'ro life of the South.
teristics. Some unusual facts are stated, a word paint— b
ing is given of Japan, its history is outlined, its govern—
ment. its outlook.

“Life in Egypt”

This describes the Land of the Pharoahs as it was

TEMPERANCE LECTURES
and is: the vivid. oriental life of the numerous nation—

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alities represented there; the beauty of the Nile, the Who IS, RCSDOHSIbIe
marvelous relics of antiquity: the temples, the pyra- . , ”
mids, the mummies. the splendid tombs of the Kings. “The Ship 8 Barnacles
The art of Egypt. is dwelt upon, its literature. its re-
“The Final Victory”

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